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John Lennon’s ‘Help!’ Guitar Sells for Nearly $2.9 Million at Recording-Breaking Auction
John Lennon's lost 'Help!' guitar has sold at auction for a record-breaking $2,857,500.
“We are absolutely thrilled and honored to have set a new world record with the sale of John Lennon’s lost Hootenanny guitar,” David Goodman, the chief executive at Julien’s Auctions, said in a statement. Fifty years later, it was discovered in an attic in the British countryside, while the original guitar case (made by the Australian company Maton) was found in the trash and rescued. The auction house celebrate the sale, which took place at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, by noting, “Its new owner now the custodian of a piece of Lennon’s soul, a tangible link to the creative energy that flowed through him and touched the lives of millions.”
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